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ship-shape, a. (adv.)|ˈʃɪpʃeɪp|
Also 7 -shapen.
[f. ship n.1 + shapen (which was later reduced to shape).]
Arranged properly, as things on board ship should be; trim, orderly: orig. Naut. but freq. in gen. use. Sometimes passing into adv., in a seamanlike manner, in trim fashion.
1644H. Manwayring Seaman's Dict. 81 It [sc. the rake] being of no use for the Ship, but only for to make her Ship shapen, as they call it. Ibid. 113 Wale-reared, that is, when a ship is built right up, after she comes to her bearing, this is unsightly, and (as they terme it) not ship shapen. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1789), Ship Shape,..in the manner of an expert sailor; as, the mast is not rigged ship-shape; trim your sails ship-shape. 1823J. F. Cooper Pioneers xxiv, It would have been more ship-shape to lower the bight of a rope. 1839Nautical Mag. 165 Neither ship⁓shape nor Bristol fashion. 1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast xxii, There was no foolish gilding and gingerbread work,..but everything was ‘ship-shape’. 1850H. Bridge Pers. Recoll. N. Hawthorne (1893) 122 We..have done a great deal towards making the establishment ‘ship-shape’ and comfortable. 1864Tennyson En. Ard. 220 Look to the babes, and till I come again, Keep everything shipshape, for I must go. 1889H. O'Reilly 50 Yrs. on Trail 249 In a week..we got shipshape and business commenced.
b. in attributive position.
1847De Quincey Sp. Mil. Nun Wks. 1862 III. 72 She..did it herself in a ‘ship-shape’, orthodox manner. 1848Dickens Dombey iv, The shop..seemed almost to become a snug sea-going ship-shape concern. 1855Browning Bp. Blougram's Apol. Poet. Wks. 1863 I. 379 Neat ship-shape fixings and contrivances.
So ˈship-shaped, ˈship-ˌshapely adjs.
1842W. Irving Let. to Mrs. Grinnell 30 Sept., Tell him not to cast all his bread upon the water in the shape of ships, however shipshaped they may be. 1843I. F. Romer Rhone II. 305 A well-appointed yacht, where everything was ship⁓shapely. 1889Welch Text Bk. Naval Archit. i. 8 To get the volume of displacement of a ship-shaped vessel when floating at a given water line. |